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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt%20to%20make%20search%20engine/near/212971934" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> ender <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt.20to.20make.20search.20engine.html#212971934">(Oct 11 2020 at 16:34)</a>:</h4>
<p>I am <em>attempting</em> to make a P2P semantic search engine with Rust targeting WASM. I'm a newb but in order to learn a language I usually have to learn by doing.</p>
<p>Are there any good NLP crates I should know about?</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt%20to%20make%20search%20engine/near/212971953" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Léo Lanteri Thauvin <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt.20to.20make.20search.20engine.html#212971953">(Oct 11 2020 at 16:35)</a>:</h4>
<p>(Your question is welcome here, but you may have more answers on the Rust community Discord)</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt%20to%20make%20search%20engine/near/212972093" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> ender <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt.20to.20make.20search.20engine.html#212972093">(Oct 11 2020 at 16:39)</a>:</h4>
<p>When I joined the discord all the messages said to join zulipchat instead. I thought it was inactive, am I looking at the wrong one?</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt%20to%20make%20search%20engine/near/212972161" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> bjorn3 <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt.20to.20make.20search.20engine.html#212972161">(Oct 11 2020 at 16:41)</a>:</h4>
<p>I think that you joined the official discord and not the community discord.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt%20to%20make%20search%20engine/near/212972837" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> ender <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt.20to.20make.20search.20engine.html#212972837">(Oct 11 2020 at 17:01)</a>:</h4>
<p>How do I join the community discord? I found the official discord from the Rust site.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt%20to%20make%20search%20engine/near/212973038" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Léo Lanteri Thauvin <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt.20to.20make.20search.20engine.html#212973038">(Oct 11 2020 at 17:06)</a>:</h4>
<p>Here's the link: <a href="https://discord.gg/aVESxV8">https://discord.gg/aVESxV8</a></p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt%20to%20make%20search%20engine/near/212973043" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Léo Lanteri Thauvin <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt.20to.20make.20search.20engine.html#212973043">(Oct 11 2020 at 17:06)</a>:</h4>
<p>(Or they also have this link apparently: <a href="https://bit.ly/rust-community">https://bit.ly/rust-community</a>)</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt%20to%20make%20search%20engine/near/212975712" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Noah Lev <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt.20to.20make.20search.20engine.html#212975712">(Oct 11 2020 at 18:16)</a>:</h4>
<p>You can also try asking on the forums: <a href="http://users.rust-lang.org">users.rust-lang.org</a> <span aria-label="smile" class="emoji emoji-1f642" role="img" title="smile">:smile:</span></p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt%20to%20make%20search%20engine/near/212975825" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Noah Lev <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt.20to.20make.20search.20engine.html#212975825">(Oct 11 2020 at 18:19)</a>:</h4>
<p><span class="user-mention silent" data-user-id="341972">ender</span> <a href="#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt.20to.20make.20search.20engine/near/212972093">said</a>:</p>
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<p>When I joined the discord all the messages said to join zulipchat instead. I thought it was inactive, am I looking at the wrong one?</p>
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<p>Hmm, it's pretty active! Some people have had glitches with joining it for some reason. You can try again, and then ask in #beginners on the official Discord.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt%20to%20make%20search%20engine/near/212983775" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> oliver <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt.20to.20make.20search.20engine.html#212983775">(Oct 11 2020 at 22:05)</a>:</h4>
<p>There is a smaller Slack channel as well which is a little more low-volume but<br>
therefore also easier to digest and still quite helpful.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt%20to%20make%20search%20engine/near/213291226" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> ambiso <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt.20to.20make.20search.20engine.html#213291226">(Oct 14 2020 at 13:54)</a>:</h4>
<p>I'm not sure rust is ready yet to handle nlp stuff. A language like Julia or python is likely much more supported for these tasks by their ecosystem. However, I'm not sure if it's easy to target wasm with these languages.</p>
<p>There's a few crates however, that you could look into: <a href="https://lib.rs/search?q=nlp">https://lib.rs/search?q=nlp</a></p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt%20to%20make%20search%20engine/near/213371904" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jubilee <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt.20to.20make.20search.20engine.html#213371904">(Oct 15 2020 at 01:51)</a>:</h4>
<p>Well, there's various kinds of search engines, and not all need (or even are greatly improved by...) NLP. Obviously Rust is trivially worse for NLP, though, next to a verrry well-developed ecosystem for it like Python.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt%20to%20make%20search%20engine/near/213372216" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jubilee <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt.20to.20make.20search.20engine.html#213372216">(Oct 15 2020 at 01:57)</a>:</h4>
<p>( but here I show my bias: I prefer it when search engines can be programmed versus when they try to parse me, so I prefer it when the parameters are easily and transparently manipulated... structured text. )<br>
The question is what sort of application it is being put to in the search engine, though.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt%20to%20make%20search%20engine/near/213720134" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> oliver <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt.20to.20make.20search.20engine.html#213720134">(Oct 18 2020 at 19:01)</a>:</h4>
<p>I don't think that Julia is especially good for NLP atm</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt%20to%20make%20search%20engine/near/213720148" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> oliver <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/attempt.20to.20make.20search.20engine.html#213720148">(Oct 18 2020 at 19:01)</a>:</h4>
<p>Maybe a small project</p>



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